How Many More?

[steveL]

Another story in the Mail tonight about a child being put at severe risk through the incompetence on display at the One Life Centre. No doubt this too will eventually lead to the standard 'procedures have already been put in place to ensure this doesn't happen again." statement.

One wonders if we are waiting for a life to be actually lost before the current situation is taken seriously. What we have is a first aid centre replacing an A&E Unit at the hospital and not a very good one at that, apparently.

A niece of mine recently had a plaster fitted at the One Life and told to visit the hospital the next day only to be told at the hospital that the plaster had to come off as it was 'a disgrace'. A minor incident compared to the trauma the parents of the child above must have gone through. The child had been given Paracetemol when it fact it had both a collapsed right lung and pneumonia. There are times when all you can do is thank God.

[Lucy Lass-Tick]

Has there ever been an official roll out of exactly what qualifications and experience the team who man One Life are supposed to possess (e.g. x doctors, y nurse/prescribers or z health care assistants), or what are considered to be the minimum acceptable levels of expertise at any point in time?

At the moment it seems as if it's manned by those with a Scout badge in first aid, or who've made a keen study of the 'Dear Doctor' page in women's magazines...

[marky]

I don't think it matters one jot how many of these stories we read about. Quite clearly, the people who are in a position to do so have no intention of doing anything about it. They are all operating to their own agendas and quite frankly, don't give a toss about what is now an obvious deterioration of service  since the A&E closed.

[Lucy Lass-Tick]

A friend who was taking her mother to be X-rayed at the One Life Centre this afternoon wasn't too impressed to find that systems were knocked out following a lightning strike.

Divine retribution or sympathetic magic? Well, perhaps that's a tad overly whimsical, but wonder how many Hartlepool residents do actually wish that it would vanish in a puff of smoke ... 

[popgoestheweasal.]

So many bad storys from the one life centre its scary.